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Ralph Merkle

"Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe."

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Ralph Merkle
"If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering."
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Ralph Merkle
"The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering."
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Ralph Merkle
"The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this."
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Ralph Merkle
"It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly."
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Ralph Merkle
"Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem."
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Ralph Merkle
"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."
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Ralph Merkle
"Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there."
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Ralph Merkle
"If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is."
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Ralph Merkle
"One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets."
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Ralph Merkle
"Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically."

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